Herpa 1/200 Astraeus Boeing 757-200 G-STRX (613262)

Description

Up for sale is a brand new 1:200 scale Astraeus Boeing 757-200 G-STRX (613262) by Herpa Wings.

Astraeus had a fleet of eight 757’s, this one was originally with Canada 3000. Astraeus used it from 2008 to December 2011, sharing it with several other carriers. Rock band Iron Maiden planned a series of world-spanning tours in 2008 and 2011. However, transporting all the equipment by boat and truck, and the crew via plane would be incredibly expensive. Thus it worked out cheaper to charter an aircraft for the whole tour and keep it for the duration as the equivalent of a tour bus. By coincidence, Bruce Dickinson, one of the frontmen of the band, was also a captain at Astraeus Airlines. This meant he could rent one of the airline’s planes for the tours. After the second Iron Maiden tour G-STRX , this Boeing 757-200 was leased to Thomson Airways and then to Iceland Express, before being renamed EI-ETR during the airlines’ collapse in 2011. As EI-ETR, it went to International Lease Finance Corporation and was broken up in July 2012.

Includes display stand.